Today’s Lesson. If you sense a “wobble” developing in your back wheel, avoid changing your rear mech into the largest sprocket. This way you will avoid putting the mech into the wheel, and so avoid causing the spinning wheel to grab the mech and rip it off. Thus you will avoid the chain pulling the rear mech into the front mech and mangling that too.
You will avoid getting very oily dismantling the remains of the rear mech so as to detach it from the chain and allow you to at least push the bike along. You’ll also avoid the grovelling call to the wife to drive into rush hour Manchester to take you home.
Hear endeth the lesson.
Note that in addition to avoiding the problems noted above, heeding the lesson will save you significant cash.
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